It's not just that--if you don't care about the manufacturer, you can usually get a really good deal on a laptop that's specced better than a regular MacBook. You can never get such good deals on Apple stuff unless you wanna buy refurb, and even then the price sucks.

I dunno, I'm not feeling particularly fearful or doubtful after reading the article.

I'm of the opinion that there is far more illegal P2P traffic than legal.

I refuse to let them share it! How did they even get my information in the first place? I'm not one of their customers!

I'd just lie. Well, personally I wouldn't have to lie as I practically never have any notes from my classes. As for miscellaneous other work, usually teachers don't tell you, "Oh, you can keep them," and then decide to take them back later. I've had teachers unwilling to release tests, which is fine by me--it's not as easy to come up with good questions as one might think. What bothers me in this case is that you've already had the entire term to let others copy your stuff, but the teacher is obviously being a moron and not realizing it.

To me, the source code for the breathalyzer machines would be quite useless. You'd have to not only be able to understand the code but understand the chemistry behind it, and I doubt many lawyers can do both. What are they going to do with the source code? Try to find a programming error that overestimates BAC? Good luck with that. The summary claims that the charges against the defendants will likely be lowered, but why? Why, just because the source code is being released, are they suddenly having the charges reduced? Is this really fair?

All this does is force a company to do something it doesn't want to do for people who don't even particularly want them to do it anyway; those lawyers just want their clients to get off scot-free.

I've read through at least some of both Halliday and Giancoli, but sometimes it's nice to have someone explain things to you instead. I happened to have some very good physics professors who always explained where every equation came from (although sometimes I couldn't figure out what they were getting at until they said, "Trust me on this math here" and suddenly wrote equations on the board).